giddiness

Example Sentences

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Most of us hadn’t played since we were teens; the giddiness felt like freedom — competition without consequence.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

As the rafters rocked, the pints spilled and a joyful giddiness filled the Allianz Stadium bowl, it felt impossible that this team would follow the same trajectory.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

“Heart the Lover” captures the giddiness, passion and vulnerability of new love, along with the deep pull of family and the way practical considerations come to take greater precedence the further one gets from college.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

The real magic, however, is the giddiness sparkling around Terence Mann who starts as a lost soul and ends the film believing in magic again, simply by touching the edge of a cornfield.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2024

It causes giddiness, elation, a tickling on the chest wall, the urge to climb a balcony on the rope of the beloved’s hair.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides